Altomédia
Altomédia is a Canadian media company, which publishes several French-language community weekly newspapers in the Central and Southwestern regions of Ontario for the Franco-Ontarian community.[1] The company's publications include Le Métropolitain in the Greater Toronto Area,[2] L'Action in London, Le Rempart in Windsor[3] and Le Régional in Hamilton-Niagara, as well as Bonjour Ontario, a monthly magazine which reprints content from the weekly publications for distribution outside the company's primary service area.
The company's president is Denis Poirier.[4]
The company was honoured by the Franco-Ontarian Economic Development and Employability Network in 2003 as one of the province's best small and medium businesses serving the province's francophone community, particularly for its advances in electronic production.[1]
L'Action
[edit]Published in London, L'Action serves much of Southwestern Ontario apart from the Windsor market, which is served by sister publication Le Rempart.[5]
Le Métropolitain
[edit]Le Métropolitain, serving the Greater Toronto Area, was launched in 1983 in Toronto, by Claude Badière, a former sales representative of L'Express de Toronto.[5]
In 2018, the competing publication L'Express was advised by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority to stop using the web domain name lemetropolitain.ca; Le Métropolitain's web domain is lemetropolitain.com.[6]
Le Régional
[edit]Le Régional serves the Hamilton market.[5]
Le Rempart
[edit]Le Rempart was launched in 1966 by the local Windsor chapter of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste.[7] It was acquired by Les Publications des Grands Lacs in 1972, and operated under the editorship of Jean Mongenais[8] until it was acquired by Poirier in 2002.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Franco-Ontarian Businesses Honoured at the 2003 Lauriers de la PME Awards". Canada NewsWire, February 28, 2003.
- ^ "Un journal francophone fait preuve « de mauvaise foi » en s'appropriant l'adresse d'un concurrent". Ici Radio-Canada, August 3, 2018.
- ^ "Le journal « Le Rempart » célèbre ses 50 ans". Ici Radio-Canada, September 23, 2016.
- ^ Sébastien Pierroz, "Indépendance, publicités, et maintenant COVID-19 : les défis des médias francophones". ONFR+, May 3, 2020.
- ^ a b c Paul-François Sylvestre, "Premier journal francophone de l’Ontario". L'Express, May 17, 2011.
- ^ "Un journal francophone fait preuve « de mauvaise foi » en s'appropriant l'adresse d'un concurrent". Ici Radio-Canada, August 3, 2018.
- ^ Miville, Serge. 2012. «À Quoi sert au canadien français de gagner l'univers canadien s'il perd son âme de francophone?» représentations identitaires et mémorielles dans la presse franco-ontarienne après la "rupture" du canada français (1969–1986).
- ^ Helen Mackenzie, "Keeping French alive in Windsor". The Globe and Mail, May 24, 1984.
- ^ "Le journal « Le Rempart » célèbre ses 50 ans". Ici Radio-Canada, September 23, 2016.